If there was one player who would have wanted nothing but the T20 World Cup, it was the New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham. Having been robbed of a title in the ODI World Cup in 2019 on boundary count, Neesham had tweeted that instead of becoming a cricketer, one should try and become a baker and die fat at sixty.
He was so distraught at the loss that he almost lost belief in the game. He was also unable to get some sort of calm as other players did by winning the World Test Championship.
But then the all-rounder came back two years later and exacted revenge in a telling fashion, single-handedly throwing out England from the T20 World Cup by hitting a 13 ball 27 when his team needed to chase 57 off the last four overs.
However, as his entire team celebrated in joy the semi-final win, Neesham tweeted the famous lines of Kobe Bryant, “What’s there to be happy about, is the job finished, I don’t think so.” All this showed that he badly wanted to win the title and the loss has not really gone down well.
In yet another fresh tweet, the 31-year-old wrote, ‘335 days.’ indicating the number of days left for the T20 World cup in 2022, which would be held in Australia in October-November 2022. It is proof of the fact that he is not over this loss either and would leave no stone unturned to win the Cup in 2022.